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Original link is just PR. I prefer the company paper: https://www.nitricity.co/_files/ugd/142f34_bc5fa8b90ac647dab4b0d794c8828b03.pdf https://www.nitricity.co/_
by jakozaur 5y ago
Original link is just PR. I prefer the company paper:
https://www.nitricity.co/_files/ugd/142f34_bc5fa8b90ac647dab4b0d794c8828b03.pdf https://www.nitricity.co/_files/ugd/142f34_bc5fa8b90ac647dab...
"For the past century, nitrogen fertilizer has been produced as ammonia (NH3) in Haber-Bosch facilities often situated very far from farmers who need and use fertilizer. State-of-the-art Haber-Bosch factories require hydrogen production via coal or methane reforming and use high-pressure and temperature reactors to transform hydrogen and nitrogen gas into ammonia.
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"The distributed production and fertilization with nitric
acid is relatively underexplored. Known nitric acid production methods require about 3 times more energy per pound of nitrogen than ammonia processes."
"In the current study, we focus on a plasma-based production process that fixes nitrogen as nitric acid on-site for a plot of irrigated processing tomatoes."
- philipkglass 5y agoThis work is interesting in that it may decentralize nitrogen fixation. Traditional Haber-Bosch plants can also decarbonize ammonia production if they use electrolytic hydrogen produced with clean electricity. Some 20th century Haber-Bosch plants operated that way with electrolytic hydrogen made via hydroelectric power.